Julian Jaynes

Julian Jaynes, author of The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, is well known for his controversial theory that consciousness in humans began only 3,000 years ago. At Nautlius, Veronique…

Rachel Aviv writes at n+1: Julian Jaynes, a psychologist at Princeton, had little patience for his colleagues, who spent hours in the lab doing “petty, petty humdrum things.” He dismissed their “objective…